Mumbai: In a development that could greatly effect real estate projects near the Juhu airport, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has hinted that it will not be shutting down the airport’s secondary runway. The authorities also assured that the No Objection Certificates (NOC) that had been issued to nearly 120 projects in the recent past, many of which are high rise buildings, will be reviewed.
The development comes after continuous allegations of some elements in AAI making efforts to close the secondary runway, reportedly to favour builders and developers.
Sources keeping tabs on developments at the airport said that a meeting was held at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan in Delhi, AAI’s corporate office, on Wednesday. It was called after the government-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), which runs its offshore operation from Bombay High using Juhu airport as its helibase, pulled all possible strings to stop the secondary runway from being shut.
10/01/13 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
